The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: I first remember meeting Matt Goodwin in person at a political science conference. If was after the Brexit referendum and he made the point that nearly every political scientist in the room had voted Remain, which for a profession that has to understand Remainers and Leavers alike, was a potential danger. A fair point, you might think. Find out more by reading this edition of The Week in Polls here, and you can sign up below to receive future editions direct to ...
Disability is a big issue, especially if you are disabled yourself due to physical or mental limitations. Getting out the door, getting to your destination can be a challenge. Too often there are thoughtless hazards in the way. People who don't allow you enough times and space to do what you need to do, especially if you have a hidden disability. Road signs blocking the pavement. Vehicles parked on the pavement in fear of slowing or causing inconvenience to motorists. Over the next few weeks, we will be discussing getting around Ludlow, walking, cycling, by bus and by car. First, ...
As I've commented on before, there's an odd and unhelpful difference between what gets said about trans rights and what the public actually thinks.
We've heard Billy Fury singing David Bowie's Silly Boy Blue, and this is another of the singles he recorded with Parlophone after the hits had dried up. Suzanne in the Mirror was released in 1967. It's very much of that year and was produced by Tony Visconti, but failed to trouble the charts. Perhaps it lacked the simplicity of most good singles?
Back from seven days in the sun to typical Welsh rainy weather and an exceptional by-election result in Swansea's Penderry Ward, where the Liberal Democrat candidate came from nowhere to gain a second place with 30% of the vote in Labour's safest seat. The looming local elections in England offer far more prospect for excitement than the rather antiquated and eccentric crowning of the King the following Saturday, but nevertheless we will endure both. Other things that have not changed is the Tory Party's continual flirtation with racism. The Observer reports that five Conservative councillors standing for the party in ...
China's mis-step China has made a rare and serious diplomatic misstep. It came from its ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, who told a television interviewer that the former Soviet states "don't exist" because "they don't have effective status in international law."—Oops. The result was an immediate outcry and demand for clarification/retraction from foreign ministries across Europe, especially the former Soviet states who live in perpetual fear of the reimposition of the Russian yoke. The Chinese obliged. The embassy in Paris said that the ambassador's remarks were "personal" rather than "official policy." In Beijing the official spokesperson more or less disowned ...
Read about one of the most radical, and effective, way to improve people's lives in the April Lib Dem Newswire.
Can you help Cherleyne with her art project? She'd like feedback on her 'Hidden Joy' project on display in Blackness Library. Come in and have a go at an interactive puzzle, and let Cherleyne know what you think before her degree show at Duncan of Jordanstone this May!
